Welcome To P.S. 56 Queens

The Harry Eichler School
86-10 114th Street
    Richmond Hill, NY 11418

School Mission Statement


Ann Leiter, Principal
Maria Lamberti, Assistant Principal
Astre 5 Awards & Recognitions
NYC Stock Market Game Mutual Funds First Place 2007 (Elementary school division) Thinkquest NYC 2007 Outstanding Web Site Award - The Magical Monarchs of Vietnam
Investwrite First Place Winner 2007 Cable in the Classroom's Leaders in Learnings Awards - National Finalist - Pushing the Envelope Category
Veteran Coach of the Year Award - Thinkquest NYC 2006 First Prize Winner of the Center for Digital Education's Best of the Web and Digital Education Achievement Award 2006 - "Extreme Cuisine" & "Kids Can Dance"; Honorable Mention for "Step Into the Future Aboard the ISS"
Thinkquest NYC First Place Div.1 "Extreme Cuisine" Outstanding Web Site Awards (4) -Thinkquest NYC 2006 (see below)
Beaumont Foundation Grant 2005-2006 Thinkquest NYC 2005 First Place - Div.2 -Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Thinkquest NYC 2005 Collaboration Award -Future of Space Flight Thinkquest NYC 2005 Second Place - Div.1- Short Eared Owls
Thinkquest NYC 2005 Outstanding Web Site Award: DNA:The Bottom Line
Thinkquest NYC After School Grants 2004 - 2007 NYS Learning Technology Grant 2004
Partnership with The Joyce Theater (NYS Council on the Arts 2003-2005 and 2005-2007 Grants to The Joyce Theater Foundation) Thinkquest NYC 2004, 3rd Place: Life In The Ice Age
New Visions For Public Schools Power Tech Extension Grant 2003-2004 Thinkquest NYC 2004 Outstanding Web Site Award: Swimming In Action 
Thinkquest NYC 2003 First Place "New Rockets For NASA Thinkquest NYC 2003 Second Place  "Poetry for All Ages"  
Thinkquest NYC 2003 Second Place "Aviation During The Vietnam War"  NYC Center For Arts Education Parents As Arts Partners 2003 grant
Thinkquest NYC 2003 Outstanding Web Site Award   "Recipes from Home: A Culinary Visit To Guyana" Bertelsmann Foundation Innovative Teacher of the Year 2003
NTTI WNET-Thirteen Master Teacher of the Year 2003 New Visions for Public Schools Power Tech Grant (New York Life Foundation) 2001-2003
NASA Student Involvement Program 2002 - First Place Middle School Winner-Mission to Mars Project Thinkquest Junior 2000 Gold Award (Sports & Health): "Growing Up With Epilepsy"
Thinkquest Junior 2000 Silver Award (Arts & Literature) : "From Pokemon to Picasso: Art Rights and Wrongs" Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Testbed Project 2000-2002
NYS 2000 Annual Archives Award for Student Research Grades 4-5  October 2000 Cool School of the Month - www.4kids.org
1999 Global Information Infrastructure Finalists (Health) 1999 Thinkquest Junior Platinum Award (Sports & Health): "Yo, It's Time for Braces"**
New York Kids On Air and Online Publication - WNYC Radio 1999 Pacific Blue Web'n Award Winner
1999 Pioneering Partners Foundation Winner Community School District 27 Computer Contest Winner: 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003

**A special thank you to Thinkquest and TQ founder Alan Weiss for flying the Yo, It's Time for Braces team to the GII Awards in San Francisco where they were finalists (health category) and presenters. Click here to see photos of our trip and the awards.  ThinkQuest

 
Astre 5 Class of 2007



Neme Alperstein, Teacher
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Click here: Weekly Notices Spring 2008

Astre 5 Class of 2007 was featured on Nightly Business Report (Public Broadcasting) on November 20, 2006 . Reporter Erika Miller visited our class to see students involved in financial literacy. Click here to view the video clip of that program.

Watch for our Media Page coming soon.

View this week's C-Span in the Classroom's home page for the latest news developments.

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Astre5 Class of 2006
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Resources for Learning Standards:

New York City Department of Education

New York State Department of Education and NYS Learning Standards (by subject)

Mrs. Alperstein's Portaportal Resource (guest login: projects)


Contact us at: nalpers@schools.nyc.gov

A List of Sites for Web Based Learning Projects

  

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